Animal-releasing device.



M. MASSARD.

ANIMAL RE'LEASING DEVICE. APPLICATION Flu-in OCT. 15. 19:5.

Patented Mar. 27,1917.

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MICHAEL MASSARD, OF CARROLL, IOWA.

ANIMAAL-RELEASING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

Application filed October 15, 1915. Serial N 0. 56,120.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL MASSARD, a citizen of Germany, residing at Carroll, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal-Releasing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in animal releasing devices and its object is to provide means for installation in a stable which normally will serve as a holder for a number of animals but which'in an emergency may be caused to simultaneously release all of said animals. With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, point: ed out in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of said specification and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the movable parts in an altered position.

Fig.3 is a cross section taken on line 66 of Fig. 1.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My invention may be applied to any stableprovided with a manger wall 2 and divided into suitable stalls. To the manger wall I secure the continuous tubular member 1 by means of the suitable braces or brackets and said tubular member is formed in each stall with a perforation 6 and adjacent said perforation and to the interior surface of said tubular member a right-angular finger 7 is secured by means of a screw or other suitable fastening 8, the free end of said finger extending toward said perforation. Within said tubular member a pull rod 9 is arranged, the end of the same passing through the end of the stable for engagement with an operating lever operatively secured to said stable. The said pull rod in each stall is recessed longitudinally as at 13 to provide clearance for said finger 7 said recessed portion at one end being diminished in diameter as at 14 to form a finger 15 integral with said pull rod and disposed in a plane parallel with the free termination of said finger 7, said finger 15 being so positioned with relation to the perforation 6 in said tubular member as to form a closure for said perforated portion when the pull rod is moved longitudinally of said member 4 In one direction. The recess 13 aforesaid is formed with a right angled extension or pocket 16 in which a coil spring 17 may be disposed.

To assemble the device the pull rod is first moved outwardly by means of the operating lever until the fingers 15 are withdrawn from normal position over the perforations 6 and the end of the recessed portions 13 of said pull rod. The recessed portions 16 of said pull rod are now in alinement with the perforations 6 in said tubular member and the springs 17 may be inserted and manually retained in position and the hitching rings 18 then inserted in the perforated portions 6. The pull rod is now gently moved inwardly by the lever thus causing the fingers 15 to engage the hitchingrings and the fingers 7 to support the springs 17 and the device is assembled. An outward pull upon the lever will release the hitching rings and cause the springs 17 to forcibly eject them from the device should gravity fail to do so. To release one animal at a time the halter strap is disconnected from the hitching ring in the usual manner.

What is claimed is In an animal releasing device, a tubular member formed with a plurality of perforations, a pull rod slidable in said tubular member and formed with a plurality of recesses and pockets which latter members are normally disposed out of alinement with the perforations in said tubular member, angular fingers carried upon the inner periphery of said tubular member and normally closing the pockets in said pull rod, expansible members normally compressed within the said pockets and bearing against said angular fingers, fingers formed integral with said pull rod and normally projected over the perforations in said tubular member fingers 7 abut the larger 7 into the recessed, portions of said rod and as my own I have hereto affixed my signainto juxtaposition to said angular fingers, ture in the presence of tWo subscribing Withitching rings releasably carried by said nesses.

fingers and means for moving. said pull rod- MICHAEL MASSARD. 5 longitudinally of said tubular member to Witnesses: v

uncover said pockets and tube perforations, JOSEPH J. MEYERS, V In testimony that I claim the foregoing JOSEPH N EGHEVS.

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